Yesterday in the afternoon, while thoroughly
analyzing the speech delivered by Obama at the MuslimUniversity of Cairo, I received some reports published by the
news agencies with the weird information that two retired persons more than 70
years old had been arrested on charges of having been spying for the government
of Cuba for 30 years.Almost all the important western press agencies – eight of them-
disseminated the news.

The persons accused are Walter Kendall
Myers and his wife Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers.It is also said that Walter worked as a
specialist in European affairs and that in 1995 -14 years ago- the couple had traveled
to Cuba and were received by me.During that time I met with thousands of
American citizens for different reasons, either individually or in groups; at
times there groups that numbered several hundreds, such as the students who traveled
to Cuba on the Semester at Sea cruise ship project, so I could hardly remember
any details about a meeting with two persons.Now I realize why George W. Bush prevented the cruise ship students to
continue visiting Cuba.They talked with me for many hours, despite the fact that they belonged
to high-middle class families.

That accusation points out that the
married couple received numerous awards, but at the same time it acknowledges
that they never did it for money or personal benefits.

I for one can assert that, as a matter of
principle, we have never tortured anyone nor have we paid anyone to obtain any
type of information.Those who one way
or the other helped to protect the lives of Cuban citizens against terrorist
plans and the plots to attempt against the life of their leaders, of the many
which were perpetrated by several US administrations, did so moved by the imperatives
of their own consciousness and, in my opinion, they deserve every honor in this
world.

What is curious is the fact that this news
is published 24 hours after the defeat suffered by the US diplomacy at the General Assembly of the
OAS.

What is really weird is this:If these persons were under surveillance,
because there were some FBI agents who managed to fool them by pretending that they
were Cuban spies, why weren’t they arrested before? Why are they arrested now?

Now begins the game of the alleged justice
against two persons who have been morally torn to shreds beforehand through
accusations that will arrange in advance the behavior of the jury that is to
decide whether they are guilty or not guilty.Obviously they will not receive the kind treatment accorded to the
terrorists who were recruited by the government of that country to destroy the Cubana airliner with all its passengers inside and to commit
horrible crimes against our people.They
have also violated the US laws, for many of these despicable
terrorist actions were carried out in the US territory.

A whole campaign has already been launched
against the married couple; they are portrayed as traitors who could be
sanctioned to 35 years imprisonment, a sentence they will have to serve until
they are more than 100 years old.The
prosecutors will be able to resort to their traditional maneuvers in their
quest for political goals.

All of this mess has been created after Obama took office as President of the United States.Perhaps the arrest was influenced not only by the tremendous setback
suffered at San Pedro Sula, but also by the news that
there have been some contacts between he governments of the United States and
Cubato deal with important issues of
common interest.

According to a news report published by
ANSA, Walter Kendall Myers declared that he tried to be “very prudent” when
picking up or transmitting secrets to Cuba.

Other articles refer to a diary that was
found in Gwendolyn’s possession.If all
of this were true, I could not but admire her selfless and courageous behavior
towards Cuba.

The confrontation with the United States is of an ideological character and has
nothing to do with the security of that country.

However, yesterday other three reports
from news agencies released information that does have a lot do with the
political moral and the security of the United States:

The agency AFP reported that a new debate
had taken place on Friday when several Democrat legislators accused the
Republican opponents of revealing secret information about torturing
techniques, which was made public during a closed door session of the Congress.

The report adds that the Representative
from Illinois, Jan Schakowski,
pointed out that everybody in the commission understands what a closed door
hearing means.

She further stated in a communiqué that
the members of this commission acted in an irresponsible manner when they left
from the confidential meeting before it ended and went straight ahead to speak
to the press.

The news agency AP stated that the federal
prosecutors had accused a man for having launched threats against President BarackObama after he presumably
told a bank employee in Utah that his mission was to kill the
president.

The local diary Salt Lake Tribune
published on Thursday on its website stated that Daniel James Murray had
confessed his intentions to a bank cashier on May 27 while he was withdrawing 13
000 dollars from a bank account.

According to the newspaper, no one knows
where the accused is.A document
submitted yesterday to the justice authorities states
that Murray is from New York and that very recently he had traveled to
California, Utah, Georgia, Oklahoma, and possibly Texas.

The newspaper further states that the
Secret Service claims that Murray has at least 8 registered fire arms, and adds
that Malcolm Wiley, a spokesman for the Secret Service in Washington, had told
The Associated Press that he won’t make any comments in this regard.

According to the AFP news agency, sensitive
US military technologies required to
manufacture nuclear weapons can easily be acquired in the United States and exported illegally, as advised by the
Congress GAO.

In a recent report published by that
institution it is stated that, using a front company and false identities, the
GAO was able to buy sensitive products, such as infrared goggles used by the US
troops in Iraq and Afghanistan to identify targets during night time,
electrodes to detonate nuclear weapons, electronic sensors used in the manufacturing
of hand-made bombs and used chips from remotely controlled missiles.

Isn’t it so that that immense and
sophisticated arsenal that has been made available to the market is placing the
world at the verge of a precipice?

Don’t you all find the whole story about
Cuban espionage quite ridiculous?